“I’m a geneadinosaur having started my research when personal computers were in the infancy of their use and had vastly less memory than today’s memory sticks. Archives and reference libraries were meant for “serious” researchers and genealogists really weren’t catered for to any great extent. This made for a tough learning curve but it did generate determination, record discrimination, and some grassroots acquisition of knowledge.”

Bequest: A very polite way to ask the clerk to make copies or perform some other favor that even obtuse researchers think might be ridiculous. Ex. “I’d like to bequest copies of the first twelve deed books in their entirety whenever might be convenient for you, my dear sir.”